Where an ICT information and knowledge manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT information and knowledge manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
ICT information and knowledge managers contribute to the definition of organisational information strategy and apply information and knowledge creation, editing, storage, and distribution policies. They manage the maintenance and evolution of structured and unstructured information. They create digital structures to enable exploitation and optimisation of information and knowledge, manage data analysis and enable business intelligence.
Also known as chief technology officer, ICT knowledge manager, ICT information manager, IT information manager, IT information and knowledge manager, IT knowledge manager.
Managers 42 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: chief data officer, 41%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An ICT information and knowledge manager needs 26 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- manage information sources information skills
- assess informational needs communication, collaboration and creativity
- manage ICT data architecture communication, collaboration and creativity
- online analytical processing information and communication technologies (icts)
- analyse the context of an organisation information skills
- manage business knowledge management skills
- information categorisation social sciences, journalism and information
- interpret current data information skills
- create data models information skills
- structure information information skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT information and knowledge manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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ICT information and knowledge manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an ICT information and knowledge manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.